[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 9, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 45481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-17029]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    Pursuant to section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651; 80 Stat. 
897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments on the question of whether an 
instrument of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which 
the instrument shown below is intended to be used, is being 
manufactured in the United States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the 
regulations and be filed within 20 days with the Statutory Import 
Programs Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. 
Applications may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Suite 
4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 02-024.
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gas Turbine 
Laboratory, 31-265, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307.
    Instrument: Universal 5 Axis High Speed Machining Center, Model UCP 
600.
    Manufacturer: Mikron, Switzerland.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study 
electromechanics at micron to millimeter scale; micro fluid and 
structural mechanics; micro rotor dynamics and air bearing fluid flow. 
Micro motor/generator torque and efficiency versus speed, micro 
turbomachinery pressure, rise flow capacity and efficiency, micro rotor 
precession and whirl onset, microbearing load capacity and stability 
will be investigated. Micro motor/generator, jet engines and rocket 
turbopumps will be spun to high speed (over 1 million rpm) during which 
their electrical performance, pressure rise versus flow 
characteristics, efficiency, and rotor motion will be measured by 
optical techniques and micro-sensors. The instrument will also be used 
for educational purposes in two graduate level courses: (1) Aircraft 
Gas Turbine Structures and (2) Aircraft Gas Turbine Design.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 13, 2002.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 02-17029 Filed 7-8-02; 8:45 am]
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